Migration and Marriage in Asian Contexts

This book analyses how Asian migrants adapt and assimilate into their host societies, and how this assimilation differs across their sociodemographic backgrounds, ethnic profiles, and political contexts.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Generation, education, and intermarriage of Asian Americans 3. Love in the melting pot: ethnic intermarriage in Jakarta 4. Internal migration, marriage timing and assortative mating: a mixed- method study in China 5. Do gender systems in the origin and destination societies affect immigrant integration? Vietnamese marriage migrants in Taiwan and South Korea 6. Happiness of female immigrants in cross- border marriages in Taiwan 7. Physical versus imagined communities: migration and women’s autonomy in India 8. The decoupling of legal and spatial migration of female marriage migrants 9. Marital dissolution of transnational couples in South Korea 10. Transnational divorces in Singapore: experiences of low- income divorced marriage migrant women 11. Remarriages and transnational marriages in Hong Kong: implications and challenges

About the author

Zheng Mu is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Her research interests include trends, social determinants, and consequences of marriage and family behaviors, with focus on how marriage and family serve as major inequality-generating mechanisms.
Wei-Jun Jean Yeung is Provost-Chair Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. She is the founding Director of the Centre for Family and Population Research and the Cluster Leader of the Changing Family in Asia research cluster in the Asia Research Institute at NUS.

Summary

This book analyses how Asian migrants adapt and assimilate into their host societies, and how this assimilation differs across their sociodemographic backgrounds, ethnic profiles, and political contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Zheng (National University of Singapore) Yeung Mu
• Assisted by: Zheng Mu (Editor), Wei-Jun Jean Yeung (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2023
• EAN: 9781032146607
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3214660-7
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Migration, immigration & emigration, Sociology: family & relationships, Feminism & feminist theory, Migration, immigration and emigration, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, Sociology: family and relationships, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations